In honor of the centennial celebration of the John Hay Library, Dr. Vartan Gregorian will address Information and Knowledge in an Age of Technology. Introduction by President Ruth J. Simmons Reception to follow at the John Hay Library Thursday, March 17, 2011 4 PM Sayles Hall, Brown University
This year’s conference theme is “Organizing Knowledge”, and focuses on systems of knowledge representation in relation to different kinds of archival practice. The Keynote lecture will be by Laurie Crumpacker, Simmons College: “Teaching the New American Renaissance and Margaret Fuller”. The conference’s full schedule is now available. Women in the Archives is co-sponsored by the … Women in the Archives: a Conference on the Role of Archival Materials in the Study and Teaching of Early Women’s Writing
The newly designed Women Writers Project web site is now live, and there has been an addition of twelve new texts to Women Writers Online. Highlights include three dramas by Aphra Behn, Margaret Cavendish’s Philosophical Letters (1664), Sarah Stone’s A Complete Practice of Midwifery (1737), and Hannah Kilham’s Memoir of the Late Hannah Kilham (1837). … Women Writers Project
The Spring 2011 New England Archivists meeting will be held on April 1-2, 2011, at the Pembroke Center at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The general theme of the conference is “The Future of Archives.” On Friday, Educational workshops will be offered in audio digitization, managing electronic records, and developing a records management program. … New England Archivists meeting
The Computing in the Humanities Users’ Group and the University Library present: Republicans of Letters: Historical Social Networks and The Early American Foreign Service Database Jean Bauer, an advanced doctoral candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and creator of The Early American Foreign Service Database, will discuss her use … Republicans of Letters: Historical Social Networks and The Early American Foreign Service Database
Papers are now being invited for Women in the Archives, a two-day conference co-sponsored by the Women Writers Project and the Sarah Doyle Womens Center at Brown University. This year the theme is Organizing Knowledge, focusing on systems of knowledge representation in relation to different kinds of archival practice. The conference will be held April … Women in the Archives: Organizing Knowledge
Andrew Ashton has been appointed to the position of Director of Digital Technologies, effective December 1, 2010. Andy came to Brown from Skidmore College in 2008 as the Senior Research Programmer for the Scholarly Technology Group (STG). He joined the Library in 2009 as a result of the integration of STG and the Women Writers … New Director of Digital Technologies Announced
CDS staffers Benjamin Tyler and Lindsay Elgin recently finished up work on their many contributions to the digital edition of the revised Special Collections History and Guide. The guide presents highlights of Brown’s special collections from the University’s inception and is part of the John Hay Library’s 2010 centennial celebration. A print version of the … Special Collections History and Guide online
Staff from the Center for Digital Scholarship worked with Professor Susan Smulyans Digital Scholarship class this spring. The website exhibits the 12 resulting student projects (the course syllabus is also available on the website).
A May 23, 2010 article by Jennifer Howard entitled “Hot Type: No Reviews of Digital Scholarship = No Respect” features quotes from Julia Flanders, on the issue of achieving academic recognition for digital projects. Here is the relevant section: Julia Flanders is editor in chief of Digital Humanities Quarterly and director of the Women Writers … Julia Flanders quoted in Chronicle article
